Classroom	ES 142
Class hours	MoWeFr 12:35PM—1:30PM
Professor	Boris Goldfarb
Office	Earth Science 120B
Office hours	MoWeFr 10:30AM—11:25AM
Telephone	518-442-4712
Email address	goldfarb at math.albany.edu
WWW page	http://math.albany.edu/~goldfarb/

About the course: This will be an introduction to manifolds and characteristic classes in topology. The prerequisite for the course is solid knowledge of first year graduate topology (fundamental group and covering spaces). The textbook is Characteristic Classes of Milnor and Stasheff, Princeton (1974).